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​Prahlad Prayers 5 Those who cherish the spiritual can channel the material
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Narasimha Chaturdashi meditation on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.26

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Prahlad Prayers 4 Upward mobility can’t save us from mortality
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Narasimha Chaturdashi meditation on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.23

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Prahlad Prayers 3 Linking manisha with Hrshikesha makes us manisha
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Narasimha Chaturdashi meditation on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.12

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Prahlad Prayers 2 The damsel in distress redefines distress
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Narasimha Chaturdashi meditation on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.12

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Prahlad Prayers 1 Krishna’s glorification is for our purification, not our glorification
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Narasimha Chaturdashi meditation on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.12

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​Bhagavatam study 38 1.8.23-25 Material adversity makes spiritual opportunity a necessity
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​Do we always have to eat what we cook – does bhakti change our karma?
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Does depending on Krishna mean using our analytical framework in his service or giving up that framework?
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Does the Gita recommend different yogas for different people?
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​Why should we follow rules and give up our freedom?
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​How do our conditionings shape our behavior without determining it?
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​How to understand when some sages feel greater bliss in impersonal realization than in personal realization?
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​Do pure devotees always experience themselves as different from the body?
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​As yogis see Paramatma within, do bhaktas see Bhagavan within?
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​Do we control the mind first or do we situate ourselves in our svarupa first?
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During chanting, can we experience the holy name touching the soul?
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​How can we understand the intelligence and ego to be different from the mind and the soul?
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How does the holy name penetrate beyond the mind, intelligence and ego?
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Bhagavatam study 37 1.8.17-22 The prayer progresses from philosophical to personal
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Bhagavatam study 36 1.8.1-16 – What is materially impossible is possible for Krishna
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​Should we strive to change those things that require a lot of effort to change?
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​How does endeavor figure in people who get good things easily?
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Is our duty towards others unlimited, irrespective of how they behave?
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If scripture is eternal, are all pastimes given in scripture destined?
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The dual dimensions of artha (Guest Column in Financial Chronicle)
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(This article was published on Sunday 15-5-16 as a guest column in a special supplement in Financial Chronicle)

Business has the potential to work for a purpose higher than profit. This higher imperative is latent in the Vedic term for wealth: “artha.” Artha refers to not just wealth but also meaning. To pursue artha means to pursue both wealth and meaning, that is, to pursue wealth in a meaningful way that creates value. Let’s explore this with a dietary metaphor.

Diminished consciousness, destructive work

We need food to live, but we don’t live to eat. Those who live to eat, eat excessively. Damaging their digestive system, they end up limiting their capacity to both eat and live.

Just as food is natural and necessary for our body, profit is natural and necessary for business. But when profit becomes business’ only motive, then ethical, relational and ecological concerns get sidelined, even suppressed. When employees feel exploited, performance drops. When consumers feel cheated, sales drop. When natural resources are depleted, operational costs skyrocket. Such fallouts make business impossible to sustain without further exploiting human and natural resources, thereby triggering a vicious cycle.

But the profit motive doesn’t have to become destructive — it can be counterbalanced if we simultaneously pursue the other dimension of artha: meaning. To find enduring meaning, we need to raise our consciousness. When our consciousness is low, we live for short-term pleasures and crave for money as a tool to those pleasures.

Some businesses try to counter the negativity associated with the mercenary motive by taking up corporate social responsibility (CSR). This is an important step forward, but by itself it doesn’t necessarily reflect a raised consciousness. As critics have pointed out, such initiatives can well be forms of green-washing — a window dressing to cover up or compensate for the harmful consequences of profiteering.

Conscious entrepreneurship is far different from any kind of window dressing. It is a fundamentally different way of looking at business – of learning to live for a higher purpose and to harmonize accordingly all our activities including our business. This higher consciousness comes best from an expanded and elevated self-conception.

Beyond riches to richness

The Bhagavad-gita (02.13) offers such a conception by explaining that our identity extends beyond our biology: we are at our core spiritual beings. Material assets and achievements alone can’t satisfy us — we need spiritual fulfillment, as parts of a cause bigger than ourselves.

The Gita (10.08) offers an inclusive vision of the Whole, the transcendent source of all consciousness and indeed all existence. This Whole is known in various ways and by different names in the world’s diverse traditions. The Gita refers to him as Krishna, the trans-cosmic Whole of whom all living beings, without any discrimination, are eternal parts (15.07).

The Whole pervades everything, and so can be accessed and served through diligent performance of our work in a mood of devotion. Work can thus be made into worship when infused with a higher consciousness. Every business needs to determine, from the perspective of a raised […]

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While choosing a spouse, is matching astrological charts essential?
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​Does the precision of astrological predictions imply that we don’t have free will?
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​When the modes control us, how do we have free will?
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